Word: shallowing
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...that “The Black Dahlia” is not entertaining. Quite the contrary, a movie can be objectively bad and very entertaining. The climax is absolutely hilarious. BOTTOM LINE: “The Black Dahlia” tries hard but it is a shallow effort, hampered by a confusing plot and unfocused direction. I do want to have Josh Hartnett’s babies now, however, so I guess it accomplished something...
...with curves rather than nerves. We rush to mock (as your cover blatantly did) any woman with bold opinions and vision. But the joke is on us because we lose every time we permit ourselves to shrink the pool of qualified candidates, female or male, to a collection of shallow and weak-minded individuals who are more likely to muddle in mediocrity than dare to dream...
...older brother Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o, once the most feared man in Colombia. It was a faster death than Casta?o probably deserved; many of his victims were killed by chainsaw...
...quarter of Procter & Gamble's sales come from emerging markets, for example, and China alone accounts for 14% of revenues at Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Buying more-established companies may seem less exotic, but for a cautious investor, it's a way to wade into the shallow end of the emerging-markets pool...
...design approach is "it's for the cool folks." What advantage does that have? My premise is if you have a choice, try to work with human nature and not against it. Sadly, humanity has a lot of negative aspects, and the two I focused on were laziness and shallowness. It is my belief that we are aesthetically shallow. We are very aspirational; it really matters how we dress, what kind of car we drive and what our place looks like. That's why gossip mags, TV and movies are so aspirational - it's always about something that is slightly...